San Diego Zoo's 'Panda Cam' Crashes Due to High Traffic
SAN DIEGO (AP) -- The San Diego Zoo's pandas have become such cyber cuties that their Panda Cam got caught in a popularity crunch.
The zoo says the online camera, which monitors 300-pound mom Bai Yun and her four-ounce, one-day-old cub, crashed Thursday morning due to increased Internet traffic. The zoo's blogs went down about the same time.
Zoo spokeswoman Jenny Mehlow said Friday the cam was down for about 30 minutes, while the blogs have been up and down since the crash and no solution has been found.
Mehlow says Panda Cam took more than 729,000 hits on its back-up site Thursday, though most statistics were lost in the crash.
Bai Yun gave birth to the cub Wednesday. It's her fifth cub and only the fourteenth panda in the United States.
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